By IANS,
Patiala (Punjab): Punjab’s police chief Sunday said that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency was trying to revive Sikh militancy in the state but this would be curbed.
“The ISI is actively engaged in trying to revive militancy in the state through arms and money. But we are fully equipped to counter that threat,” Director General of Police P.S. Gill told rreporters in Patiala, 80 km from Chandigarh.
Gill said that besides arms and money, the ISI was trying to sneak some terrorists into Punjab but the police and security agencies were alert against such moves.
Punjab had witnessed a bloody phase of Sikh terrorism between 1981 and 1995 that left over 25,000 people dead.
Punjab has, for the last nearly two decades, an electrified barbed wire fence on the 553-km long India-Pakistan border in the state to check infiltration from the Pakistani side.